I know there are three back order company, Pool.com, snapname.com, namewinner. which one do you prefer? I heard someone said that pool is the best, what is ur opinion?

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=311489&highlight=backorder

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=297711&highlight=backorder

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=294469&highlight=backorder

enom = pool in the same level i'd say
namewinner
snapnames maybe
and then godaddy BO service

thats my personal opinion.

I heard that POOL will bid them selves against people inlarging the bid amount, is that ture? I just want to check if it is reliable!

Thanks anyone!

First off, there are more than just 3 backordering services around. eNom's Club Drop is doing fairly good recently. GoDaddy also has it's own, and there are several more smaller guys.

For really good domains, I wouldn't bet on chances but order on ALL available venues.

As for Pool.com bidding themselves against their clients, I have heard of such rumours. But if that is even remotely true, those guys will be serving jail time for fraud NOW.

As nameslave said, there are more than just three backorder services:

http://www.pool.com(com/net/org/info/biz/ca/co.uk/me.uk/org.uk/net.uk)
http://www.snapnames.com(com/net/org)
http://www.namewinner.com(com/net/org/info)
http://www.thefirstname.com(com/net/org/info)
http://www.dropwizard.com(com/net/org/ca/co.uk)
http://www.godaddy.com(com/net)
http://www.enom.com/resellers/(com/net)
http://www.namefox.com(com/net)
http://www.dropcatcher.com(com/net)
http://www.detagged.co.uk(co.uk)

My personal current rating is:

Pool (effective but expensive)
enom Club Drop (been very cost effective for me)
GoDaddy (not bad for the money)
SnapNames (getting better - but expensive)
NameWinner (just the last two months - I've done very badly there)

So can we say if I backordered a domain in pool and enom club that I have 90% of getting the domain?

4solution
You gave a good list but godaddy is not better than snapnames. First is pool then enam, snap. namewinner. A group actually did a monitoring over a period of time, pool always came first( I hate them though, everytime I order a domain I hope it is not picked up by pool. they are very agressive, make you blind bid in their ridiculus "sealed" bid auction even if you are the only bidder and you dont know it so they get the highest you can pay ,its a rip off) then enom is the second best and I like their process.


The monitoring I mentioned above can be seen here, click on one of the dates and it shows the stats. Buydomains have enough money to outbid us all, they get most of the good ones.

http://www.ohashi.us/stats/

Bob

nameslave, they use private bidding, so no one would know about bidding against themselves to raise the final bid price...

if they were open like use a handle or something to recognize bidders that would be safer.

Originally posted by Bashar
nameslave, they use private bidding, so no one would know about bidding against themselves to raise the final bid price...

if they were open like use a handle or something to recognize bidders that would be safer.
I agree that justice needs to be SEEN. And I'm not trying to speak good of Pool.com (don't particularly love or hate them). However, I could hardly believe that ANYBODY in their shoes would risk losing everything AND their office-bearers going to jail just to make some quick money ... even thogh we have seen a lot of that happening these days. :sad:

I Have been sha6aa6ed.. is that correct Bashar?

Originally posted by Scuzzy
4solution
You gave a good list but godaddy is not better than snapnames. Bob,

That was just a listing of my personal experience of late.

GoDaddy's backorder system has been just great to me over the past couple of months (dumb luck I guess). In addition, I get the backorders at a discount for under $13.00.

SnapNames has not caught me anything, of late. But the time that I blew them off... they got the name I wanted. :bawling:

So, this is just my personal experience over the last couple of months - your results may vary. :D

Originally posted by Talal
So can we say if I backordered a domain in pool and enom club that I have 90% of getting the domain? Not really. It is a function of how many registrars each backorder service has coupled with how many backorders there are on that particular name. Multipy by your wallet times plain old luck. ;)

Pool and eNom DO have a lot of registrars say vs GoDaddy who I believe now uses three registrars. So statistically, Pool and eNom have an edge over GoDaddy. But, if I win a name at GoDaddy, then I win it. There is one one backorder per name at GoDaddy. But at Pool, I always seem to be amazed at how much people will be willing to pay for some domain names with no traffic when similar variants are available for regular registration. So, POOL may get the name... but after the auction, will YOU get the name. And if you do, what did you have to PAY for it. To me, that's the deciding factor.

As is often said here, if you REALLY want a particular domain name, then your best course of action, is to backorder it at ALL the services you can afford.

Good Luck!

enom's drop has done fairly well for me lately. Pool's money leeching tactics have made me move away from them and fast, ultimately these games will catchup to them.

Dmaven,

I agree, they are being too agressive. They may make a quick profit using this new system but in long term they will lose customers. Recently I wrote an email complaining their sealed bid system what they said was: we are the market leader and we respect customer privacy. Showing number of bidders and a username has nothing to do with privacy. Basically they said we are the best in catching names and do as we please with them.
Well, I am not oredering one more domain at pool.com, they can rip off whoever else they want to.

marketleader? For now.

I think snapnames will probably come back from the dead, enom may grow in this space. The registrars are looking out for themselves, if snapnames or namewinner pays out more than pool they will defect faster than you can imagine. With less registrar connections you will see how much less effective pool becomes when this occurs. Instead of being cocky they should focus on improving their product and their support.

Time to get off of my soapbox